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In the post "Big Knobs" I mentioned Zig Ziglar - the salesman's salesman. One of Zig's many pithy sayings has been adopted by many (including me) as their personal motto: "You can have anything you want in this life just as long as you are prepared to give others what it is that they want"
Recalling this set me to wondering which of my AWAD colleagues had a creed they try to follow? (Having noted several definitions of "creed" I am using it in the context of a set of fundamental beliefs and/or a guiding principle.)
Care to share.....?
(I guess we can take the ten commandments as a given?)
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No - you can't take the ten commandments as a given. 1-4 mean nothing to anyone not Jewish or Christian, and 7 does not apply if the wife and husband both agree such a rule is silly - and it happens.
I have only one - Try to be nice, and give everyone as much room as possible to pursue happiness, and require the same from them. The rest is just window dressing.
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You are only wretched and unworthy if you choose to be.
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I like the all-encompassing Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Something to strive for. Like good karma. Post-edit: I guess I just rephrased Bryan's last paragraph! 
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Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
Or I prefer the Pagan version: And it harm no one, do as ye will.
As to the ten commandments I'm waiting for the ten commandments judge to make sure they ain' no little graven eagles on none of his flag poles.
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Cheating is a confession of inferiority which I do not choose to make.
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aside from the golden rule, that several have posted, one of my basic rules is:
It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.
if your first rule is to do no harm to others, and this is a second... it works fine..
it doesn't mean you can act with out thinking-- just with out permission.
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Hillel: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. This differs subtly from Matthew 7.12: "Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them." Bryan, above, strikingly parallels the former: "Try to be nice, and give everyone as much room as possible to pursue happiness, and require the same from them. The rest is just window dressing."http://www.fragrant.demon.co.uk/golden.html lists the versions of various faiths.
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Seems to be a general agreement in tone if not in detail.
My own articulation of it is a little narrower: never miss the opportunity to say something nice to people.
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